I think Sac is pretty competitive and might be better than Serv/Sup on that fight anyway though, depending on how good you are at pushing your ember consumers while in pools.

I think that may have a lot to do with your raid DPS as a whole, if you get 1 more pool (mixed with Dark Soul) then GoSac would probably be better. If you don't get the extra pool that lines up all your CDs, I am not sure.

For me destro was ahead on all fights until I got my meta gem, which was around 520 ilvl but also around the time I obtained my second RPPM trinket and a buttload of new items which didn't have crit. Now affliction is top on single target, but I still play destro on hc horridon and ji-kun.

Destro isn't usually ahead because of ilvl factors. Affliction really really wants the legendary meta gem, and without it, it's not as good as it should be. Also, several fights in ToT favor Destro due to fight mechanics, so while other specs may sim higher, Destro wins in actual raiding.

Destro is fairly forgiving, though, if you don't have all the gear. As I said before, Affliction really wants the meta; Demonology really wants UVLS. If you don't have either, chances are Destro will be your best choice.

In general though, given equal skill the specs are fairly equal. Just keep in mind fight-specific mechanics and how they affect your choice.

Our other warlock thought it was okay too - until he was in charge of picking up one add on Dark Animus HC, and his initial Fel Flame missed. The result was that 0.03% chance to miss cost 25 players a repair bill and he got a shameful moment of silence.

for padding just keep fnb up all the time and spread your conflags then obviously enough RoF to keep spamming chaos bolts as filler. you should also get a focus havoc macro to shadowburn cleave from low adds to the boss. fnb immolates are rarely worth it but can't say for sure.

when doing it heroic you have to be way more careful with killing adds close to the boss obviously.

for padding just keep fnb up all the time and spread your conflags then obviously enough RoF to keep spamming chaos bolts as filler. you should also get a focus havoc macro to shadowburn cleave from low adds to the boss. fnb immolates are rarely worth it but can't say for sure.

when doing it heroic you have to be way more careful with killing adds close to the boss obviously.

Our 10man strat basically revolves around me killing every small add with MF-FnB. (Yet I still end up with about the same boss damage as everyone else :P)

I put up FnB-Immo on adds + RoF as my main source of add damage. You're generally swimming in embers anyway so FnB-Immo'ing doesn't really cost you anything. If I have time to fill I'll conflag. The one thing I'm sure to do is Havoc 3 shadowburns onto the big add to help kill or.

Our 10man strat basically revolves around me killing every small add with MF-FnB. (Yet I still end up with about the same boss damage as everyone else :P)

I put up FnB-Immo on adds + RoF as my main source of add damage. You're generally swimming in embers anyway so FnB-Immo'ing doesn't really cost you anything. If I have time to fill I'll conflag. The one thing I'm sure to do is Havoc 3 shadowburns onto the big add to help kill or.

I'm getting the "rotation" down fairly well but I hear differing opinions on whether to Rain of Fire on single target or not.

Can anyone comment?

You should use it in a single target rotation if every tick will hit the boss. That being said Blizzard has mentioned they aren't particularly happy with this so don't be surprised when/if they change it in a few patches.

You should use it in a single target rotation if every tick will hit the boss. That being said Blizzard has mentioned they aren't particularly happy with this so don't be surprised when/if they change it in a few patches.

Thanks, glad to hear it might change. It feels very clunky to me to mix in RoF.

One more question: let's say I'm casting Chaos Bolt and in the middle of my cast a trinket procs. Is it better to just finish the cast and or stop casting and recast with the trinket buff?